Grateful Dead

July 7th, 1969, was a Monday free concert at Piedmont Park, Atlanta, following the July 4th (Friday) weekend's Atlanta International Pop Festival in Hampton GA, one month before Woodstock Festival. The Atlanta Pop Festival had 20 bands, including Spirit, Hampton Greese Band (with Col. Bruce Hampton), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Chicago Transit Authority, Grand Funk Railroad, It's a Beautiful Day, Janis Joplin, Blood Sweat and Tears, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin and Johnny Winter.

The Pop promoters opened the free concert at Piedmont with Spirit, Hampton Greese Band, and Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. The Grateful Dead, who were playing at the Electric Theater, Chicago, 7/4-7/5/69, were the Headliners. The show, which was supposed to start at 1pm, was strongly influenced by bountiful quantities of Owsley Acid. This was a big event for the region in the south, as Georgia was not used to the quantity of hippies and "Summer of Love" ethos of the Bay area. The Allman Brothers Band, who had begun playing free concerts at Piedmont as early as May of 1969, were rumored to be in attendance at this 7/7/69 show. Some say there was a big jam at the end, but listening closely I do not hear Duane, Gregg, or Dickey Betts in the mix. So yesterday, 11/4/24, was the 55th anniversary of the release of the Allman Brothers Band eponymous album.

Not as familiar as most of you with this era so I struggled for many tries until frustrated, then in desperation I went to the comments for cryptic clues. That helped but Ladnarc has been to every show. And Bundubush, are you sure you have all your shows attended listed? I had it early on but didn't realize the person whose archive show I was listening to had the songs out of order which I realized the second time through. A worthy quest nonetheless!
Cheers

Well Shucks, darn and other comments. I really enjoyed being able to download the .wav files. I like to rip to flac whenever I can. :-) Now...to put todays download on repeat while doing "chores"